The following communication from the former managing editor of the Acta Columbiana may serve to more explicitly define Columbia's position in the Harvard-Columbia dispute to Harvard men :

EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : Your letter of the 9th inst. was received the following day. I have delayed my reply in order that I might be able to answer your questions with entire certainty. Your first questions is as follows: "Harvard on account of Mr. Benjamin's death agreed to postpone the race, fully understanding, it is said at Harvard, that in the new agreement the time (hour) was to be left to Harvard. Did Columbia so understand?" You ask further : "Harvard, perhaps wrongfully, insisted on rowing at 11.30 or 12 M. Columbia refused. Then Harvard states that it was verbally, though explicitly, agreed that the race should be called off. Does Columbia explicitly deny this agreement?" In answer to the first question I feel warranted in saying that Columbia did not so understand; to the second, Columbia explicitly denies the agreement.

Very truly yours,

JNO. K. BANGS.Oct. 13th, 1882.